Eat Fat Run Free Book Review

Module 4 Book Review
Go Wild
Eat Fat, Run Free, Be Social, and Follow Evolution’s Other Rules for Total Health and
Well-Being
Stacey Williams
The University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation

In partial fulfillment of the requirements of
N3335 Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
Shawn Tindell, MSN, RN
May 1, 2018
Module 4 Book Review The Book Go Wild, Eat Fat, Run Free, Be social and Follow Evolution’s Other Rules for Total Health and Well-Being is not a book to be judged by its cover or its title. Once you get past the first few pages, it entails scientific and data-driven details written by a doctor and a journalist, in a way that a person can understand and that makes sense. The chapters in this book

They hunted for their meat and gathered the wild grasses known as rice, wheat, tubers, and corn. We have domesticated the different "wild grasses" with civilization and the Industrialized Revolution Era. With civilization and industrialization, we have gone from small amounts gathered of these wild grasses to an abundance of domesticated amounts to serve at each meal. These four foods are the most dominant of our food source now. "About 75% of all human nutrition derives from those four sources alone." (Ratey & Manning, 2014) These plants store and are made up of carbohydrates, which is a starch. Starches are complex carbohydrates that break down quickly, often in a person's mouth, into simple carbohydrates, which are sugars. With industrialization, we have allowed ourselves to become sedentary, not having to hunt and gather anymore. Our bodies use glucose to move forward in the form of glycogen and fat. Glucose is converted to glycogen and stored in our muscles and organs. If these systems are full, then the glucose is turned into fat and stored around our bellies, thighs, and buttocks. Before the body can use up the stored glycogen or fat, more glucose comes down the bloodstream and now insulin is telling the body too much glucose, quit burning the fat and glycogen and start burning the glucose. So, with all the carbohydrates we are eating of these four domesticated grasses, we are getting fatter

The research was done on the diet that our pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer ancestors had and type 2 diabetics. The study offered two types of groups. The second group was of the ADA diet. Both groups showed improvements in metabolic measures. The Paleo group had greater benefits in glucose level and lipid profiles. On the Paleo diet, insulin-resistant participants showed a greater improvement in insulin sensitivity. The participants on the ADA diet showed no such improvement. The results of the short-term study of the consumption of the Paleo type diet were improved glucose control and lipid profiles with type 2 diabetics.
Second Corroboration
This study shows that between the Paleo diet and the Diabetic diet, that both diets showed a reduction in BMI and HbA1c. The Paleo diet showed a lower absolute value of these parameters. Seven weeks living as hunter-gatherers, consuming high-protein, low-fat diet, energy intake of 5020kJ daily improved the metabolic abnormalities of type 2 diabetics of the Indigenous Australians.
Part IV: Practice